The Voice of Insurance

Today’s podcast was recorded down at the Monte Carlo Rendez-Vous at the beginning of September. This extraordinary gathering of global insurance leadership is great place to secure time with senior executives from all around the world. I am really glad and feel very lucky that Ri ...  Show more

Today’s guest is an insurance professional who has just completed forty years in the market. Over that time he has built a reputation as the consummate underwriter’s underwriter. But by some strange coincidence our paths hadn’t crossed – until now. We can complain about Monte Car ...  Show more

Welcome to the fifth Episode of its kind, documenting the 2026 Monte Carlo Rendez-Vous on your behalf. The first in 2022 foretold a historic, chaotic and dramatic hard-market renewal. At the next, stability and a return to orderliness was craved, and was granted. The year after t ...  Show more

Today’s podcast is a really strong conversation with someone in a significant strategic position within the global Facultative reinsurance, Wholesale and Specialty market. That’s because across 26 business lines, with platforms in the US, London and Singapore they run a business ...  Show more

There’s a lot of received wisdom in our industry. You know, the sorts of things that we tell each other often enough that we all begin to accept them as true without really questioning the assumptions behind them with rigour. Here are three common ones: you have to have meaningfu ...  Show more